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You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song

album by Ella Jenkins

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ8056471 ↗
Source-derived summary

You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song is an album by folk singer Ella Jenkins. She is joined by members of the Urban Gateways Children's Chorus. It was added to the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2007.

Track listing

"You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song" (Ella Jenkins) – 4:20

"Shabot Shalom" (Traditional) – :46

"Cadima" (Traditional) – 1:37

"This Train" (Traditional) – 3:02

"Did You Feed My Cow?" (Traditional) – 3:12

"Miss Mary Mack" (Traditional) – 1:56

"May-Ree Mack" (Jenkins, Traditional) – 2:11

"You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song (Review)" – 2:41

"Dulce, Dulce" (Jenkins) – 1:16

"May-Ree Mack (Review)" – 2:18

"Maori Indian Battle Chant" :31

"Did You Feed My Cow?

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song” as album by Ella Jenkins. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966. The account is most persuasive where You'll, Sing and Song can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Ella Jenkins. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8056471. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2007.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “You'll Sing a Song and I'll Sing a Song” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.